List of BS, Fake, or Biased News Sites

You’re in an argument with someone on Facebook, probably an uncle with an alcohol problem, or a girl you made out with once in high school who grew up to be a “vegan witch” with a YouTube channel, or a teenager who discovered Tumblr and now thinks she has a PhD in Sociology; and you ask them to provide a source to back up what they’re saying.

Well if they use any of the following links, you can now officially dismiss them as being not just wrong, but in a certain sense, responsible for the decline of western civilization.

That’s not hyperbole, because our ability to move forward and improve the lives of everyone on the planet depends on a commitment to understanding the world as it is, not as we want it to be. And the first step in this is to ensure that the information on which we base our decisions is actual information, not BS that’s spread either to support an ideology that runs in conflict with objective reality, or just to make a quick buck off the clicks of the people who want to believe it.

Thankfully there’s an emerging backlash against this dangerous nonsense. One digital good samaratin is Melissa Zimdars, an assistant professor of Communication and Media at Merrimack College. She has compiled a list of the most egregious offenders:

100PercentFedUp.com

EnduringVision.com

PakAlertPress.com

21stCenturyWire.com

FPRNradio.com

PoliticalBlindSpot.com

70news.wordpress.com

GeoEngineeringWatch.org

PoliticalEars.com

abcnews.com.co

GlobalResearch.ca

Politicalo

ActivistPost.com

GovtSlaves.info

PoliticusUSA

Addicting Info

GulagBound.com

PrisonPlanet.com

American News X

HangTheBankers.com

PrisonPlanet.tv

AmericanNews.com

HumansAreFree.com

Private-eye.co.uk

AnonNews.co

Huzlers

ProjectVeritas

Associated Media Coverage

IfYouOnlyNews

Rawstory

BeforeItsNews.com

Indecision Forever (www.cc.com/indecision)

React 365

Being Liberal

IJR (Independent Journal Review)

RealFarmacy.com

BigAmericanNews.com

InfoWars

RealNewsRightNow.com

BigPZone.com

Infowars.com

Red State

Bipartisan Report

IntelliHub.com

RedFlagNews.com

BizPac Review

Inquisitor.com

RileNews.com

Blue Nation Review

JonesReport.com

Satira Tribune

Breitbart

LewRockwell.com

Sprotspickle.com

Cap News (twitter.com/capnews)

Liberal America

The Blaze

ChristWire.org

LibertyTalk.fm

The Free Thought Project

Chronicle.su

LibertyUnyielding

The New Yorker’s Borowitz Report (satire column)

CivicTribune.com

LibertyVideos.org

The Onion (satire)

ClickHole.com (satire/comedy)

LMR (LibertyMovementRadio.com)

The Other 98%

CoastToCoastAM.com

MediaMass.net

The Reporterz

CollectiveEvolution

MegynKelly.us

The Stately Harold

CommonDreams

MSNBC.com.co

TheDailySheeple.com

ConsciousLifeNews.com

MSNBC.website

TheNewsNerd.com

ConservativeOutfitters.com

Naha Daily

TheRunDownLive.com

ConspiracyWire (WideAwakeAmerica.com)

National Report

TheUsPatriot.com

CountdownToZeroTime.com

NationalReport.net

TruthFrequencyRadio.com

CounterPsyOps.com

NaturalNews.com

Twitchy.com

CreamBMP.com

NC Scooper

UnconfirmedSources.com

Crooks and Liars

NCT (New Century Times)

Upworthy

DailyBuzzLive.com

News Examiner

USA Supreme

DailyCurrant.com

News-Hound.com

US.Blasting.News

Daily NewsBin

NewsBiscuit.com

US Uncut

Daily Wire

NewsBuzzDaily

VeteransToday.com

DCClothesLine.com

Newslo

Walking Times

DCGazette.com

NewsMutiny.com

WakingUpWisconsin.com

DerfMagazine.com

Newswatch 28

Winning Democrats

Disclose.tv

Newswatch 33

WitScience.org

DrudgeReport.com.co

NewsWire-24.com

World Net Daily

DuffleBlog.com

NoDisInfo.com

World News Daily Report

DuhProgressive.com

Now8News

WorldTruth.tv

Embols.com

NowTheEndBegins.com

ZeroHedge

Empire Herald

Occupy Democrats

Empire News

EmpireNews.com

Endingthefed.com (ETF News)

This is the list as of November 2016. To see the most recent updated version, you can click here to see her public Google Doc version of it. As we type this, the document is down from “Too Many Requests”.

The fact that this is down actually warms our angry little heart; it’s a good sign for Humanity

Dr. Zimdars also has tips for not falling prey to suspect news sites, which include:

Avoid websites that end in “lo” ex: Newslo (above). These sites specialize in taking a piece of accurate information and then packaging that information with other false or misleading “facts.”

Watch out for websites that end in “.com.co” as they are often fake versions of real news sources.

Watch out if known/reputable news sites are not also reporting on the story. Sometimes lack of coverage is the result of corporate media bias and other factors, but there should typically be more than one source reporting on a topic or event.

Odd domain names generally equal odd and rarely truthful news.

Lack of author attribution may, but not always, signify that the news story is suspect and requires verification.

Don’t be a sucker, and don’t fall into the mounds and mounds of BS that’s out there. Remember: it’s more important to be right than to believe you are, no matter how uncomfortable it may be to correct your false understanding of a subject with new facts.